PRINCIPLES OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION

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Winchester and New Castle, Delaware, St Paul's Bibliographies, Oak Knoll Press, The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2023, stiff paper wrappers

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"...Principles of Bibliographical Description is sure to increase any book persons appreciation of and ability to learn from bibliographies.... Principles of Bibliographical Description is a seminal work that belongs in any book persons reference library. Whether you utilize its lessons daily or rarely, its a pioneering work that well deserves the terms "magisterial" and "towering" often applied to it."
- William Butts, Manuscripts and FABS Journal, Spring 2024

First published by Princeton University Press in 1949, this reprint with the introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle was published in 1994 by St. Paul's Bibliographies. Reprinted by Oak Knoll Press and The Bibliographichal Society of the University of Virginia in 2023, this indisputable classic of 20th-century scholarship is one of the standard guides on the subject of bibliography, providing a comprehensive manual for the description of printed books as physical objects. Although there has been much activity in the area of descriptive bibliography since, Bowers' work still holds its place as the central book to which those engaged in bibliographical work continually return.

 

Winchester and New Castle, Delaware: St Paul's Bibliographies, Oak Knoll Press, The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2023; thick 8vo., stiff paper wrappers; xvi, 505 pages. ISBN 9781884718007. Book # 139667

 

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